ESA trace of the Heterodyne beat signal of NPRO laser

Development of suspended mirror Fabry-Perot Cavity:

A suspended mirror Fabry-Perot Cavity as a test setup for the Controls Team. The suspended mirror Fabry-Perot Cavity will be designed to achieve a finesse of 400 or higher to match the final requirements for the Control system in LIGO

Design and fabrication of a high mechanical Q optics suspension

Design and development of the electro-magnetic actuation system for the suspended optics

Set-up will be developed with three degrees of freedom for each optic; x, y and z. with a total of six-degrees of freedom for the Fabry-Perot cavity